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Exercise Science student presents research
Which form of exercise helps you increase flexibility, boost energy and focus, and relieve stress? The answer is yoga, and researchers at WSU Spokane-including graduate student Pamela Schultz-are looking to confirm and define those benefits for a specific group of people: breast cancer survivors.
Carolyn Johnson awarded research grants
Dr. E. Carolyn Johnson was recently awarded two research grants:
Diabetes Action Research and Education Foundation
($40,000). Principal Investigator, with Katherine
Tuttle, M.D. Role of vascular endothelial growth factor
and its receptors in mediating increases in fibrosis
induced by hyperglycemia and excess amino acids in rat
mesangial cells.
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program, Washington State
University ($12,479, additional $12,479 potential).
Principal Investigator. Protective effect of ethanol
against endothelial cell damage caused by
hypoxia-reoxygenation: Role of protein kinase C and
adenosine and adenosine receptors.
Sally Blank at Cambridge conference
Dr. Sally Blank presented "Physiological Responses to Hatha Yoga: The Exercise Stress of Asansas," at the Seventh International DHIIR Conference, Indic Health Conference I: The case of modern yoga, September 2002 (Dharam Hinduja Institute of Indic Research, University of Cambridge).
WSU Spokane seed grants awarded
Doctors Sally Blank, Jackie Banasik, and Mel Haberman have been awarded WSU Spokane seed grants to investigate complementary and alternative intervention on psychosocial, quality of life, and immune outcomes in women with stable breast cancer. This research is in collaboration with Dr. Joni Nichols, M.D., Cancer Care NW, Spokane.